The Hong Kong legislature is set to debate the single largest democratic reform in the city's history on Wednesday as a handful of lawmakers hold in their hands the fate of more than three decades of political wrangling over the issue of giving residents the right to vote for their leader.
Beijing has drafted the first regional road map for the control and prevention of air pollution in the area that includes the capital and neighboring Tianjin and Hebei province, a senior official from the municipal environmental authority said.
The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the top anti-graft authority, published the results of its inspections of more than a dozen State-owned enterprises on Tuesday, including the State Grid Corp, China National Offshore Oil Corp and China Power Investment Corp.
In an era of rapid change, it takes only a year for a whisper to grow into a chorus.
Experts have welcomed updates to the legal framework to tackle piracy as digital access to foreign films and TV series poses new challenges in copyright protection.
Juvenile Chinese sturgeon have reappeared in the mouth of the Yangtze River after two years of no evidence of spawning.
Employers will be required to pay workers who receive monthly wages by the 10th of the following month under a draft law being considered in Guangdong province.
As the longest watercourse in China and the third-longest on the planet, the Yangtze River is famous for its long, rich history and beautiful scenery.
Trees are something of a rarity in the Tibet autonomous region. Conditions on the high-altitude plateau of the Nagqu Grassland - 4,500 meters above sea level - are not conducive to their growth, except for a few places in eastern Nagqu prefecture.
The food quality watchdog is set to further strengthen the regulation of imported foods, which are growing more popular following a series of food safety scandals in China.
Environmental protection authorities have reined in polluters by using the "teeth" of regulations and laws to levy record fines in the first four months of the year, prompting polluters to clean up their acts, a senior environmental official said.
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